Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Friday, May 15, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Biagio Marini: "Passacalio"
Irish Baroque Orch/Monica Huggett
Flights of Fantasy: Early Italian Chamber Music
12:05 am
George Frideric Handel: "Passacaille, Gigue and Menuet" in G
English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Handel: Music For The Royal Fireworks
12:12 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor," BWV 582
Canadian Brass
Perfect Landing
12:24 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Bk 1, BWV 846/69
Fugue No. 6 in d
Léon Berben, hc
Bach Edition: Complete Works
12:26 am
Ernst Boehe: "Aus Odysseus' Fahrten"
"Odysseus Heimkehr"
Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Werner Andreas Albert
Ernst Boehe: Symphonic Poems, Vol 2
12:55 am
Johann Jakob Froberger: Suite XI in D
"Sarabande"
Ludger Rémy, hc
The Strasbourg Manuscript
1:00 am
Pablo de Sarasate: Two Spanish Dances, Op 21
#1, "Malagueña"
Rachel Barton, v; Samuel Sanders, p
SARASATE, P.: Spanish Dances / Serenade andalouse / Miramar / Introduction and Tarantella / Muiniera
1:05 am
Ernesto Lecuona: "Andalucía, Suite Española"
Louise Bessette, p
Reflections on Spain
1:28 am
Marin Marais: "Marche Tartare"
Marku Luolajan-Mikkola, viga; Annamari Pölhö, hc
Marais 'Suite d'un Gout Etranger'
1:30 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: March in D, K. 237
Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Hans Graf
1:34 am
Josef Myslivecek: Cello Concerto in C
Wendy Warner, vc; Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
Haydn & Myslivecek Cello Concertos
1:55 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Klavierstück in D, K. 15bb
Lera Auerbach, p
2:00 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Fidelio," Op 72
Overture
Consortium Classicum
Chamber Music for Winds Vol. 2
2:05 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in E-Flat, WoO 38
Trio Parnassus
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios, Vol. 4
2:20 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Trinklied", WoO 109
Peter Schreier, t; Walter Olbertz, p
2:22 am
Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concerto in a, Op 82
David Oistrakh, v; Russian State Sym/Kiril Kondrashin
2:43 am
Lera Auerbach: Piano Trio
Lincoln Trio
Notable Women
2:55 am
Adolphe Adam: "Griselidis"
March of the Gardeners
Sofia Phil Orch/Dario Salvi
Griselidis
3:00 am
Heinrich von Biber: Mystery Sonatas ("Rosary")
Sonata III, "The Nativity"
Köln Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel
Die Rosenkranz-Sonaten
3:05 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestra Suite No. 4 in D, BWV 1069
Music of the Baroque/Thomas Wikman
Music of the Baroque
3:24 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 1, BWV 846/69
Fugue No. 16 in g
Angela Hewitt, p
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier
3:26 am
Johannes Brahms: String Sextet #2 in G, Op 36
Heifetz & Baker, v's; Primrose & Majewski, vi's; Piatigorsky 7 Rejto, vc
Piatigorsky 7 Rejto,
The Heifetz Collection, Volume 41: Dvořák: Quintet, op. 81 / Brahms: Sextet, op. 36
3:55 am
Johannes Brahms: Eight Songs, Op. 57
"Strahlt zuweilen auch ein mildes Licht"
Olaf Bär, br; Geoffrey Parsons, p
Brahms Lieder
4:00 am
George Whitefield Chadwick: Five Piano Pieces
The Frogs"
Peter Kairoff, p
American Character - Piano Music of George Whitefield Chadwick
4:05 am
George Whitefield Chadwick: Symphonic Ballad, "Tam O'Shanter"
BBC Welsh National Orch/Andrew Constantine
Falstaff
4:25 am
Malcolm Arnold: "Tam O'Shanter" Overture, Op 51
Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry F Junkin
Arnold For Band
4:33 am
Malcolm Arnold: Three Shanties, Op 4
#2
Nash Ensemble
The Chamber Music Of Malcolm Arnold – 3
4:35 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata #1 in D, Op 12/1
Barbara Govatos, v; Marcantonio Barone, p
Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano
4:55 am
Adolphe-Charles Adam: "Giselle"
Act 2: Ensemble des Wilis
London Sym Orch/Michael Tilson Thomas
Adam: Giselle
5:00 am
Franz Schubert: "Ständchen" from "Schwanengesang"
Vladimir Horowitz, p
Vladimir Horowitz- Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon
5:05 am
Zoltán Kodály: String Serenade, Op. 12
Ani Kavafian, v; Joseph Silverstein, v; Paul Neubauer, vi
DOHNANYI, E.: Serenade in C Major / KODALY, Z.: Serenade / BARTOK, B.: Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion
5:26 am
Lars-Erik Larsson: "Little Serenade" for Strings, Op 12
Stockholm Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen
A Swedish Serenade
5:37 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 1, BWV 846/69
Prelude No. 19 in A
Angela Hewitt, p
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier
5:39 am
Johann Christian Bach: Sinfonia Concertante in A
Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Pinchas Zukerman, v; St Paul Chamber Orch
Ma Plays Bach
5:54 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 2, BWV 870/91
Fugue No. 20 in a
Angela Hewitt, p
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:00 am
Mornings with Jan Weller
Including news and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and "Carl’s Almanac" at 7:30 am.
6:04 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807
Bourrées I & II
Francesco Tristano, p
Bach: The 6 English Suites
6:08 am
Emmanuel Chabrier: "Bourrée fantasque"
Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi
Chabrier: Orchestral Works
6:16 am
Benjamin Britten: "Simple Symphony," Op. 4
I. "Boisterous Bourrée"
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, Bizet: Symphony in C, Britten: Simple Symphony
6:19 am
Johan Halvorsen: "Suite ancienne," Op. 31
"Bourrée"
Bergen Phil Orch/Neeme Järvi
Halvorsen: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
6:23 am
Joseph Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne, Set 1
Three Bourrées
Dawn Upshaw, s; Lyon Opera Orch/Kent Nagano
Joseph Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne; Maurice Emmanuel: Chansons bourguignonnes
6:32 am
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, D. 485
I. "Allegro"
Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
6:40 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Rondo in G, Op. 51, No. 2
Evgeny Kissin, p
Bach-Busoni: Chaconne; Schumann: Kreisleriana; Beethoven: Rondo a Capricco
6:50 am
Alan Thomas: "Trío Sefardí"
I. "Como páxaro en su vuelo"
Cavatina Duo; David Cunliffe, vc
Sephardic Journey
7:05 am
Charles Wuorinen: "Bearbeitungen über das Glogauer Liederbuch"
Ensemble Recherche
renaissance transcriptions
7:14 am
George Whitefield Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches
No. 3, "Hobgoblin"
Czech State Phil/José Serebrier
Chadwick: Tam O'Shanter, Symphonic Sketches, Melpomene Overture
7:21 am
Leo Sowerby: Serenade in G
Avalon String Quartet
Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions & Other Early Works
7:34 am
Igor Stravinsky: "Pulcinella"
Overture; Serenata; Scherzino; Allegro
Nicholas Phan, t; Chicago Sym Orch/Pierre Boulez
Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Symphony in Three Movements, Four Etudes
7:46 am
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 26
I. "Andante"
Behzod Abduraimov, p; RAI National Sym Orch/Juraj Valčuha
Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos
7:56 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Six Pieces, Op. 11
No. 2, Scherzo
Septura
Brass Septet Music, Vol. 3
8:03 am
Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31
Evgeny Kissin, p
The Salzburg Recital
8:15 am
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
II. "Allegro vivo"
Isaac Stern, v; Jaime Laredo, vi; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p
Emanuel Ax, piano,
8:22 am
Mel Bonis: "Suite Orientale," Op. 48
WDR Orch Cologne/Joseph Bastian
Mel Bonis Orchestral Works
8:31 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Trio in E-Flat, K. 498, "Kegelstatt"
III. Finale, Rondo, "Allegretto"
Patrick Messina, cl; Lise Berthaud, vi; Fabrizio Chiovetta, p
Mozart, Bruch
8:41 am
Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 2 in D
Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi
Mendelssohn - Europa Galante
8:53 am
Maurice Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole"
IV. Finale, "Feria"
Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez
A Century of French Music
9:03 am
Hajime Komatsu: "Four Japanese Folk Songs" Suite No. 2
Kontras Quartet
Origins
9:18 am
William Bolcom: "Seattle Slew" Suite
Louisville Orch/Lawrence Leighton Smith
First Edition: William Bolcom
9:39 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006
I. "Prelude"
Hilary Hahn, v
Hilary Hahn Plays Bach
9:44 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, "Organ"
II. "Allegro moderato - Maestoso"
Olivier Latry, o; Philadelphia Orch/Christoph Eschenbach
Barber, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
10:00 am
Hosted by Kristina Lynn.
10:01 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 18 in F, K. 130
Prague Chamber Orch/Charles Mackerras
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18
10:21 am
Lerner & Loewe: "My Fair Lady"
Medley
Richard Glazier, p
Broadway to Hollywood
10:27 am
Lerner & Loewe: "My Fair Lady"
"I Could Have Danced All Night"
Barbara Hannigan, s; Ludwig Orch
Dance With Me
10:31 am
Hubert Parry: Anthem, "I was glad"
Trumpeters, Coronation Cho & Orch/Pappano; Holder, o
King Charles III Coronation: The Official Album
10:40 am
Gabriel Fauré: Harp Impromptu, Op. 86
Mariko Anraku, h
Mariko Anraku: Harp Recital
10:50 am
Peter Warlock: "Capriol" Suite
English Sinfonia/Neville Dilkes
Country Gardens
11:00 am
Chris Batchelor: "Andalusian Suite"
London Brass
Viva España!
11:10 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Overture (Suite) in F, TWV 55:F1
L'Orfeo Barockorchester/Carin van Heerden
Telemann: VI Ouvertures à 4 ou 6 TWV 55 (1736)
11:26 am
Robert Schumann: "Kinderszenen," Op. 15
Martha Argerich, p
Carte Blanche
11:45 am
Ilan Eshkeri: "A Perfect Planet"
"Flamingos"
London Metropolitan Orch/Ilan Eshkeri
A Perfect Planet (Soundtrack from the BBC Series)
11:53 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake," Op. 20
Act 1, Waltz
National Phil Orch/Richard Bonynge
Weekend Classics: Ballet Weekend
12:01 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat, Op. 127
III. "Scherzando vivace"
Dover Quartet
Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Vol 3
12:10 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: "Sinfonia concertante" in B-Flat
Gringolts, v; Altstaedt, vc; Bernardini, ob; Whelan, bn; Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen
Peter Whelan, bassoon,
Mozart: Concertos & Haydn: Sinfonia concertante / Arcangelo
12:32 pm
Traditional Chinese: "Jasmine Flower"
Lang Lang, p
Piano Book
12:40 pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "The Song of Hiawatha"
Overture
RTÉ Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper
Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite
12:53 pm
Manuel de Falla: "The Three-Cornered Hat"
Dances
John Williams, g
Spanish Guitar Favourites
1:01 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Souvenir d'un lieu cher," Op. 42
Janine Jansen, v; Mahler Chamber Orch/Daniel Harding
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Souvenir d'un lieu cher
1:19 pm
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor, D 537
Garrick Ohlsson, p
Schubert: Piano Sonatas D 537, D 959
1:45 pm
Johnny Marr: "There is a Light That Never Goes Out"
Orchestra of the Swan
Timelapse
1:52 pm
Carl Maria von Weber: "Invitation to the Dance," Op. 65
Ensemble Wien-Berlin
Concert à la Carte
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Vincent d'Indy: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 98, "En forme de suite"
Horszowski Trio
Horszowki Trio plays Saint-Saëns, Fauré and d'Indy
2:20 pm
Sergei Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet," Op. 64
Romeo at Juliet's Tomb
Milwaukee Sym Orch/Andreas Delfs
Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
2:27 pm
Zoltán Kodály: "Háry János" Suite, Op. 35a
Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Solti: Bartok
2:51 pm
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Künstlerleben (Artist's Life)," Op. 316
Vienna String Sextet
Wiener Streichsextett
2:58 pm
Anonymous 17th-century English: "The Miller of the Dee"
Broadside Band/Jeremy Barlow
Popular Tunes in 17th Century England
3:00 pm
Antonín Dvořák: "Legends," Op 59
Nos. 1-5
Bournemouth Sym Orch/José Serebrier
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8, Complete Ten Legends
3:24 pm
Aram Khachaturian: "Gayaneh"
Gopak; Sabre Dance; Ayesha's Dance; Dance of the Rose Maidens
Royal Phil Orch/Yuri Temirkanov
Khachaturian: Suites From The Ballets
3:37 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C, BWV 1009
Nina Kotova, vc
Bach: The Cello Suites
4:00 pm
John Field: Piano Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 1, No. 1
John O'Conor, p
John Field: Sonatas And Nocturnes
4:14 pm
Irene Britton Smith: Violin Sonata (1947)
Gregory Walker, v; Helen Walker-Hill, p
Kaleidoscope: Music By African-American Women
4:31 pm
Thoinot Arbeau: "Orchésographie"
Galliards
New York Renaissance Band/Sally Logemann
Praetorius: Excerpts From Terpischore
4:40 pm
Thoinot Arbeau: "Orchésographie"
Mimed Branles
New York Renaissance Band/Sally Logemann
Praetorius: Excerpts From Terpischore
4:50 pm
Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): "Symphonie concertante" in C, Op. 9, No. 1
I. "Allegro"
Yury Revich & Libor Ježek, v's; Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Michael Halász
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphonies concertantes; Symphony in G major
5:00 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Capriccio italien," Op. 45
Cincinnati Sym Orch/Erich Kunzel
1812, Capriccio Italien, Cossack Dance
5:16 pm
Gaspar Cassadó: "Requiebros"
I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky, vc
Violonchelo Español
5:21 pm
Léo Delibes: "Sylvia"
"Valse lente"
San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West
Delibes: Sylvia, Coppelia
5:26 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat, Op .74, "Harp"
Quartetto Italiano
Beethoven * The Middle String Quartets * Quartetto Italiano
6:00 pm
Frédéric Chopin: Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49
Olga Kern, p
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
6:15 pm
Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C, D 956
I. "Allegro ma non troppo"
Stephanie Jeong & Gina DiBello, v's; Lawrence Neuman, vi; Brant Taylor & Kenneth Olsen, vc's
Brant Taylor, cello,
Rush Hour Concert: The Schubert Cello Quintet (June 1, 2021)
6:30 pm
Gotthard Odermatt: Trois Images pour Hautbois et Orchestre, Op. 18
I. "Été"
Albrecht Mayer, ob; St Martin's Academy/Mathias Mönius
Bonjour Paris * Albrecht Mayer
6:42 pm
Amilcare Ponchielli: "La Gioconda"
"Dance of the Hours"
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
The Fantastic Philadelphians
6:54 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Mandolin Sonatina in C minor, WoO 43, No. 1
Julien Martineau, m; Vanessa Benelli Mosell, p
Beethoven Suites
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
This week, Bill looks at the life and musical development of one of Hungary’s greatest composers. A musician’s musician, Bartok was supported by many of the great conductors of his era. Paul Sacher, who led the Basel Chamber Orchestra, asked him to write the Divertimento for Strings. Serge Koussevitsky and Fritz Reiner invited him to compose the Concerto for Orchestra. At the end of the week, we’ll hear Benny Goodman perform "Contrasts" for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, a piece he requested from Bartok.
8:00 - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Giacomo Puccini: "La Bohème"
Suite
National Opera Orch/Paul Freeman
Puccini: Opera for Orchestra
8:15 pm
Giacomo Puccini: "La Bohème"
Duet, "O soave fanciulla"
Mirella Freni, s; Luciano Pavarotti, t; Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
The World's Greatest Opera Album
8:20 pm
Michael William Balfe: "The Bohemian Girl"
Overture
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
Boston Tea Party
8:30 pm
Luigi Cherubini: String Quartet No. 6 in A
Melos Quartet
Luigi Cherubini: The String Quartets
8:56 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Six Minuets, WoO 10 (1796)
No. 2 in G
Philharmonia Virtuosi/Richard Kapp
Greatest Hits of 1790
9:01 pm
Igor Stravinsky: "Pulcinella"
"Gavotta con due variazioni", "Vivo"
Soulima Stravinsky, p
Soulima Stravinsky Plays Igor Stravinsky
9:07 pm
Igor Stravinsky: "Pulcinella"
Suite
Israel Phil Orch/Leonard Bernstein
Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite, Pulcinella Suite
9:30 pm
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Polichinelle" in F-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 4
Alexandre Tharaud, p
Tharaud Plays Rachmaninoff
9:35 pm
Benjamin Godard: "Suite de trois morceaux," Op. 116
Susan Milan, f; City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
La Flûte Enchantée
9:48 pm
Clara Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 22
Yoshika Masuda, vc; HyeJin Kim, p
Hidden Flame
10:03 pm
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D, "Titan"
San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas
Mahler: Symphony No 1
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Anna Deavere Smith (5/4/1995)
Born in 1950, Anna Deavere Smith frequently credits Studs Terkel's book "Working" for revealing to her the dramatic power of spoken language, and for inspiring her groundbreaking plays such as "Fires in the Mirror" and "Let Me Down Easy." The visionary and prolific actor and author spoke with Studs on WFMT in May 1995
11:50 pm
Aaron Copland: Two Pieces for Violin and Piano
"Nocturne (to Israel Citkowitz)"
Gil Shaham, v; André Previn, p
American Scenes
